By Shields                                            H.B. No. 2794
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to penalties for a violation of this act.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  The Texas Insurance Code, Chapter 21, Subchapter
    1-5  A, Article 21.07-2, Section 7, Acts 1951, 52nd Legislature, Chapter
    1-6  491 is amended to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 7.  Any person who shall act as a Life Insurance
    1-8  Counselor, as defined herein, without having first obtained a
    1-9  license as herein provided, or who violates any of the provisions
   1-10  of this Act shall be guilty of a Class C misdemeanor and, upon
   1-11  conviction, shall be fined not more than Five Hundred Dollars
   1-12  ($500), <or imprisoned not more than six months>, <or both,> each such
   1-13  violation being a separate offense hereunder.  In addition, if such
   1-14  offender holds a license hereunder, such license shall
   1-15  automatically expire upon such conviction and the offender shall be
   1-16  barred from license for a period of at least two (2) years.
   1-17        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-18  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-19  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-20  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-21  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-22  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-23  passage, and it is so enacted.